{"id":82460,"title":"Offstream - Streamlined carbon compliance for project developers","tagline":"Less time on paperwork, more time scaling decarbonization","body":"We’re Varsha and Zach, the co-founders of [Offstream](https://www.useoffstream.com/). We’re automating carbon compliance for project developers.\n\n👥 **The Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=82460\u0026key=user_uploads/1511734/c26f1ce5-81dd-4fc1-8ec5-70c1c016a774)\n\n5 years ago, [Varsha](https://www.linkedin.com/in/varsha-ramesh/) struggled through carbon compliance as a project developer at Indigo Ag. While she was at HBS, she spoke to hundreds of developers with the same challenges she faced, who all asked for a solution to their compliance bottleneck.\n\n[Zach](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachjanicki) brings many years of full-stack software engineering experience at early-stage startups across compliance, legal, and accounting. He brings much-needed insight into building scalable products that replace people-intensive workflows.\n\n❗**The Problem**\n\nDespite a growing amount of funding (to the tune of $2T annually) flowing into new decarbonization projects, it is incredibly challenging for project developers to complete the paperwork needed to access that funding.\n\nToday, carbon project developers navigate a complex web of credits, regulations, and market standards. This information comes from local, state, and federal governments, NGOs, industry coalitions, and investors.\n\nTracking and reporting on compliance data is time-consuming, opaque, and expensive. The standards are dense, and most teams manage millions of data points in Excel and emailed PDFs, creating admin headaches.\n\n🏆 **The Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=82460\u0026key=user_uploads/1511734/c3bf3ca9-fbf6-45d7-ac4b-5da337d326de)\n\nOffstream is a one-stop shop for carbon compliance, making it simple for carbon project developers to get compliant and stay compliant with regulatory and voluntary market compliance standards.\n\n\u003chttps://youtu.be/YrXj7POfO30\u003e\n\nUsers set up and generate life cycle assessments (LCA), which are a core component of all compliance standards. Offstream builds off the LCA to generate compliance documentation at a fraction of the cost and time of alternatives.\n\n[Are you ready to stop spending time on paperwork and spend more time scaling decarbonization? Join us.](https://www.useoffstream.com/)","slug":"LS0-offstream-streamlined-carbon-compliance-for-project-developers","created_at":"2024-07-29T14:07:11.508Z","updated_at":"2026-04-30T01:44:24.357Z","total_vote_count":132,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LS0-offstream-streamlined-carbon-compliance-for-project-developers","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=82460\u0026key=user_uploads/1511734/c26f1ce5-81dd-4fc1-8ec5-70c1c016a774","company":{"id":29675,"name":"Offstream","slug":"offstream","url":"https://www.useoffstream.com/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/343bfc43bc79563ba958e18c388fa951ab1c7e01.png","batch":"Summer 2024","industry":"B2B","tags":[],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/29675"}}